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Pet peeve of the day: Being a loser

The word is lose. Not loose. The word is loser, not looser. One means you've lost. The other means your clothes are going to fall off. Am I a loser for mentioning this? Maybe. What's your pet peeve? Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on February 7, 2009 at 2:24pm — 4 Comments

I am not an economist but...

I can't be the only one that thinks the bailout is no solution at all...

What do you think? my youtube channel Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on December 27, 2008 at 8:13pm — No Comments

Looking at things differently

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Added by Robyn Miller on December 18, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Urgent! Looking for small business owners to be interviewed for a magazine!

An accomplished writer and a dear old friend of mine, Fawn Fitter wrote to me with this request, and I thought I'd pass it along to the Smoosiers: --------------------------- For an imminent issue of a business magazine, I'm looking for a small business owner who made a business mistake that threatened growth or revenues, but who was able to correct it and bounce back in a way that eventually led to greater success. I'd be interviewing this person for an as-told-to article -- in other words, s/… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on December 13, 2008 at 9:43am — 2 Comments

The end of the experiment

See the rest of the experiment at http://www.youtube.com/user/bynmiller Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on December 11, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Day 6 - 80 song shout out

Catch the rest of my videos on my video channel. Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on December 10, 2008 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments

Nostalgia and Embarrassment - Video experiment day 5

The rest of the experiment on my youtube channel. Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on December 9, 2008 at 8:56pm — 4 Comments

Camera experimentation

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Added by Robyn Miller on December 9, 2008 at 8:29am — No Comments

Too many places

I'm not big on the home away from home thing in too many places. In short, Smaller Indiana is a great outpost, but it's not my home. I'm not quite sure what this community is becoming, and I'll continue to watch, I guess. I think for me it's a great place to visit, but I'm not quite sure I want to live here or can maintain all these residences. Not yet anyway ;) So I'll probably be posting here occasionally, but I can't seem to juggle all these locales... Just between my work blogging and Facebo… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on December 7, 2008 at 2:40pm — 3 Comments

a lesson in child psychology and mopping

My daughter is going to do her favorite chore this morning: Mopping the kitchen floor. You see, I told her the first time I had her do it that if she told me she hated it, I'd make her do it all the time. She said smiling "Mom, this is the worst chore... EVER!' How does this chore get done? I have a small spray bottle filled with one cap of Pine Sol and the rest water. She sprays spots on the floor and then mops it. With two white dish towels which she skates along the floor with her feet. Is… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on September 7, 2008 at 10:21am — 2 Comments

Who am I?

I've had this conversation with a few folks lately. When you introduce yourself, what do you mention first? Career? Family? Hobbies? Religion? I'm me. I try to put it in the context of the person I meet. I work with a person they know. I'm the mother of the child that is in the class with theirs. I'm a friend of a friend of a friend. But really who am I? I'm a woman with a daughter, a career, a home, a life. I have passions, beliefs, wants, needs, loves, fears. My biggest issue? Balance. I'm… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on August 23, 2008 at 7:06pm — 2 Comments

Twitter as RSS and News(ish) stuff

I have some folks I follow on Twitter, not for the conversation, but as a feed of what they post elsewhere on the web and the like. It takes the place of RSS for me, just another presentation of what I might see in a more screen-hogging fashion on my RSS reader. Here's my list. bbctech BarackObama CNETNews cnnbrk cnn engadget MarsPhoenix NASA hpnews NewYorkerDotCom nprpolitics Techmeme nytimes TheOnion woot Do you have some that you would recommend I add to those I follow? What is cool is whic… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on August 3, 2008 at 10:00am — 7 Comments

A list of favorites

I've had so many different blogs over the years, but the one thing that's always made me comfortable is lists. This list of favorites has been iterated many times, the first publication in early 2005, and I'm amazed that there's never a thing I want to change on it. I realized just now re-reading this list that I said to a random person in the elevator that it was such a beautful day, I wanted to sit outside with a book and an ice water. I don't know if it's memory loss, or what, but there it is… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on July 17, 2008 at 8:53pm — No Comments

Monetizing the web in the social stream

With thanks to Kyle's post which got me thinking in a completely different mode. My thoughts on monetization of the social web (my mental circle): Firstly, complex software (not the single function model of most social tools) will always hold some monetary value. Functionality is king. Making it web distributable shouldn't change that, right? But nothing in any networks that have been charged for in t… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on July 8, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Drive-by blogging: A little more insight into OpenSocial

Google's Joe Kraus talks to Knowledge@Wharton. Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on June 15, 2008 at 10:50am — No Comments

A digital teenager

Some people live in this space with ease. Digital natives function in this space and wander about in it with reckless abandon. I have friends who tell me that they watch me and cannot imagine how I do what I do, or keep track of what I've got, or have it all straight in my head, or pick what I use. The answer is: I don't. I wander aimlessly at times, and allow myself to do so, a digital nomad at times, a native at other times, but mostly, I've found the best term to be a digital teenager, my ow… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on June 14, 2008 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

On being prolific in the public age

I blog a lot at work. I could blog more, but the rest of my job gets in the way :P As for here, I struggle. Back in the "good old days" I could be assured that my rants would only reach some subset of existence, an occasional outlier, and rarely anyone I could offend... in a way that concerned me anyway. I've maintained quite a few personal blogs in the past 6+ years, but this one... this one I find hard to do. I guess it's that the web has hit critical mass. I spent years in relative anonymity… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on June 8, 2008 at 10:03am — 2 Comments

SAD through Spring

I used to think that the cloudy days of the winter got me down, but by spring, I'd be fine. But in general in Indiana, and definitely this year, it seems I have to wade through spring in ankle-deep water and clouds before I get to sunshine. I can handle a hundred bright sunny cold winter days over days on end of spring rain. 10 degrees and sunny over 50s and rainy. I'll leave you with this thought: SAD through Spring I've been told I'm strange but I NEED light. 70 and rainy stil… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on May 23, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Hi Aaron, Will, Maggie, Matt, Dave, Jeff, Lorraine, Erik, Duncan, Nicki, and a whole bunch of others!

Great meeting a whole bunch of you folks tonight. There's more names, but even I'm not that obnoxious, so hopefully no one feels left out :) We're cool like that, right? Was nice networking and 'not networking'. Catch you in the real world again some day, but in the meantime, feel free to come visit me here, especially for the virtual beer, snacks, etc. Drop me a line so I get all those names and faces straight, especially if you didn't add to my business card collection (enough to wallpaper at… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on May 13, 2008 at 10:30pm — 4 Comments

Election Day Dirt

People talking about politics who never would. People asking really inappropriate questions at inappropriate times. People assuming they know who voted for who. Election Day brings out the character in characters that you thought had none, the humor in the humorless, the seriousness in the normally light-hearted. On a personal note, I'm just glad not to be getting any more flyers in my mailbox from both candidates, phone calls from Hillary Clinton's campaign, and emails talking about the Hillar… Continue

Added by Robyn Miller on May 6, 2008 at 11:24pm — 2 Comments

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